Further Light and Knowledge

Hi all!

I need your help. I need a bunch of prophesies from past GAs that talk about how great and/or popular the church will get. Stuff like Kimball's "Vision of the Arts" or JS's White Horse Prophecy, etc.

They can be outrageous prophecies (in fact, the more outrageous, the better, for what I'm doing with them), or can be out-of-context (like the White Horse Prophecy is). Well-known prophecies are preferred over obscure ones, but I'll take anything.

I'd think of them all myself but all things Mormon are fading from my brain rather quickly.

Thanks!
AA

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As man is, so is his God;
And thus is God, oft strangely odd.
-- Goethe

Hi AA! As you likely know, I know sweet fuck all about mormonism and its history and prophecies lol...but couldn't resist to say hi!

Hi WC!

It's fun to check out FLAK again! It's been awhile since I've been around here.

BTW, for my project, I've decided to just concentrate on the White Horse Prophecy. So, no need for any more prophecies now.

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As man is, so is his God;
And thus is God, oft strangely odd.
-- Goethe

These are obviously not a GA "prophecies" and you're obviously not collecting them anyways but I wanted to share two that I found humorous:

#1 --> One of the dumbest "prophecies" I ever witnessed came from our bishop telling the youth at an eight year old's baptism that their generation would definitely be on the earth when cheezes returns.

#2 --> Another was a local authority who "prophesied" that a town of 8000 people would have their own stake center where the current branch building was located. This is in a very rural part of Georgia, next to the Alabama state line - maybe 30,000 people in the entire county. I laughed out loud one time when the newly appointed bishop, a young and excited 28 year old, announced to the congregation that it was time to make this "prophecy" come to pass!

Ya, whatever dude.

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It's good to talk about these things and to sort out the messed up mindfuck we were in.
- SIMS

From October 2011 conference:
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2 ... e?lang=eng



So, they are still bragging about it.

Back to 1976,
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/1 ... s?lang=eng

Check out "Council of Fifty" in wikipedia.

You'll want to get a hold of older materials--"The Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith"; "Discourses of Brigham Young"; "Gospel Doctrine" by Joseph F Smith; "Doctrines of Salvation" not sure which volume of the three by Joseph Fielding Smith; any of BR McConkie's books; any priesthood manual dated before the mid 1980s. If you're in Utah, it shouldn't be hard to get paperback versions of the first few books for next to nothing.